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ENVIRONMENTALBASELINE STATUS 3.1 Baseline data 3-1 3.2 Environmental Status Of MCGM 3-2 3.2.1 Landuse 3-2 3.2.2 Climate And Meteorology 3-2 3.2.3 Ambient Air Quality 3-4 3.2.3.1 National Ambient Air Quality Standards 3-4 3.2.3.2 Primary Baseline Ambient Air Quality Monitoring 3-6 3.2.3.3 Air Monitoring By Municipal Corporation Of Greater 3-6 Mumbai (MCGM) 3.2.3.4 Statistical Study by EMC, Mumbai on MCGM Data 3-11 3.2.3.5 Ambient Air Monitoring by NEERI 3-13 3.2.3.6 Salient Features Of URBAIR Study 3-13 3.2.3.7 Overall Conclusions 3-14 3.2.4 Noise Quality 3-20 3.2.5 Ecological Status 3-21 3.2.6 Socio-economic characteristics 3-24 Chapter 4- SECTORAL ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT 4.1 Background 4-1 4.2 Comprehensive Transport Strategy (CTS) 4-2 i MumbaiUrban TransportProject EnvironmentalAssessment 4.3 Sectoral Strategy Options 4-5 4.3.1 Do Minimum Or Minimum Intervention 4-5 4.3.2 Public Transport Or Rail Investment Option 4-6 4.3.3 Public Transport + Demand Management 4-7 4.3.4 Road Investment 4-9 4.4 Environmental Assessment 4-10 4.5 Sectoral Level Environmental Assessment 4-10 4.6 SLEA methodology 4-12 4.7 Environmental Evaluation of Sectoral Strategic Options 4-14 4.7.1 Air Quality Impacts 4-14 4. 7.2 Noise Impacts 4-18 4. 7.3 Ecological Impacts 4-21 4.7.4 Social Impact (Limited to Displacement Of People) 4-22 4.7.5 Impact on Transportation Service 4-23 4.8 Selection of the Best Option 4-25 4.8.1 Decision Matrix Method 4-25 4.8.2 Maximum number of favourable indicators 4-26 4.8.3 Estimated _ Concentration 4-26 4.9 Transport Developments Since 1998 4-33 4.10 Environmental Impacts of flyovers - sectoral perspective 4-34 4.11 MUTP: Investment Program 4-34 Chapter 5 - PROJECTDESCRIPTION 5.1 Description Of Investment Project: MUTP 5-1 5.1.1 Introduction 5-1 5.1.2 Rail Projects 5-5 5.1.3 Road Projects 5-9 5.1.4 Administrative Framework for Implementing MUTP 5-14 Chapter 6 - Environmental Assessment 6.1 PLEA/ MLEA Methodology and Screening Rationale 6-1 6.1.1 Environmental Assessment 6-1 6.1.2 Screening Methodology 6-2 6.1.3 Results of Screening 6-4 6.1.4 MLEA/ PLEA Methodology 6-4 6.2 Environmental impact 6-6 6.2.1 Environmertal impacts of major projects 6-6 6.3 Programmatic Level Environmental Assessment 6-16 Chapter 7- Environmental Management Plan 7.1 Introduction 7-1 7.2 Sectoral Level Environmental Mitigation And Management Plan 7-5 7.2.1 Sectoral Level Environmental Impacts 7-5 7.2.2 Sectoral EMP 7-6 7.2.3 Sectoral Level Monitoring 7-6 7.3 PROJECT Level Environmental Mitigation And Management Plan 7-14 7.3.1 Summary of Environmental Impacts/lssues 7-14 ii MumbaiUrban Transport Project EnvironmentalAssessment 7.3.2 Environmental Mitigation Measures and Management Plans 7-14 7.3.3 Environmental Monitoring Plan 7-15 7.4 Institutional Setup, Coordination & Strengthening 7-16 7.4.1 Institutional Set-Up And Coordination 7-16 7.4.2 Reporting Requirements 7-17 7.4.3 Institutional Arrangements And Its Strengthening 7-20 7.5 Cost Estimates for Mitigative Measures and Monitoring 7-20 7.5.1 Cost Estimates for institutional capacity building 7-20 7.5.2 Cost estimat4esfor project specific EMP implementation 7-21 7.6 Contractual Agreement 7-22 Chapter8 - RESETTLEMENTAND REHABILITATION 8.1 Resettlement Action Plan 8-1 8.2 The Objectives 8-1 8.3 Resettlement Policy 8-1 8.4 Legal Framework 8-2 8.5 Definition Of Project Affected Households (PAH) 8-3 8.6 Rehabilitation Entitlements 8-3 8.7 Organizational Responsibilities 8-4 8.8 Two stage Resettlement Process 8-4 8.9 Grievance Redressal Mechanism 8-4 8-10 Site Specific Resettlement Implementation Plans (RIP) 8-4 8-11 Scale of Resettlement Required 8-5 8-12 R & R Implementation Schedule and the Present Status 8-6 8-13 Lessons Learnt 8-8 8-14 Costs And Budget 8-8 Chapter 9 - PUBLICINFORMATION AND CONSULTATION 9.1 Consultation During CTS (1994) 9-1 9.2 Consultation During Environmental Assessment (1997) 9-1 9.3 Consultation During R&R 9-1 9.4 Consultation On Updated EA 9-2 9.5 PUBLIC INFORMATION Centres 9-3 9.6 Proposed Consultation 9-3 9.7 Public Opinions, Concems And Responses 9-5 iii Mumbai Urban Transport Project Environmental Assessment LIST OF TABLES Table Description Page Number Number 2.1 Schedule For Implementation Of Vehicles Rules 2-3 2.2 Deadlines for Phasing out Old Vehicles 2-7 3.1 Analysis of Wind Pattern in Mumbai 3-4 3.2 National Ambient Air Quality Standards 3-5 3.3 Sectorwise Air Emission Load Of Greater Mumbai 3-6 3.4 Ambient Air Quality at Specific locations for last three years (1998 - 3-9 2001) 3.5 API for six areas in Greater Mumbai 3-10 3.6 Air Pollution Index Descriptor 3-10 3.7 Air Quality At traffic Intersections (1998 -2001) 3-11 3.8 Yearwise Regional Mean Values of pollutants for Greater Mumbai 3-12 3.9 Ambient Noise Quality (1997 -99) 3-20 3.10 Details of Natural Reserves 3-24 4.1 MMR: Population and Employment ('000) 4-1 4.2 MMR Private Vehicle Ownership 4-2 4.3 Peak Period Travel Demand 4-3 4.4 Projects under Do Minimum Option 4-5 4.5 Projects under Public transport option 4-7 4.6 Projects under Road Investment Option 4-9 4.7 Environmental Impact Indicators / Indices used in SEA 4-13 4.8 Comparison of Options based on absolute values of air pollutants 4-15 4.9 Comparison of options based on absolute values of traffic noise 4-19 indicatorsi 4.10 Comparison of options based on ecological impacts 4-22 4.11 Comparison of options based on R & R impacts 4-23 4.12 Comparison of Options based on Transport Service 4-24 4.13 Selection of Best Option for Island City through Decision Matrix 4-27 Method 4.14 Selection of Best Option for Western Suburb through Decision Matrix 4-28 Method. 4.15 Selection of Best Option for Eastern Suburb through Decision Matrix 4-29 Method 4.16 Selection of Best Option for Rest of MMR through Decision Matrix 4-30 Method. 4.17 Selection of Best Option for Entire MMR through Decision Matrix 4-31 Method 4.18 Best Option for the various regions based on the three selection 4-33 methods 5.1 MUTP: Status Of Implementation of Projects 5-13 iv Mumbai Urban Transport Project Environmental Assessment 6.1 List of Projects Selected for PLEA/ MLEA 6-1 6.2 Summary of Screening Steps 6-2 7.1 List of Projects Selected for PLEA/ MLEA 7-1 7.2(a) Sectoral EMP 7-9 7.2(b) Sectoral EMP Implementation Framework 7-11 7.3 Environmental Quality Monitoring 7-13 7.4(a) Summary of Impacts for Jogeshwari-Vikhroli Link Road Project 7-24 (JVLR) 7.4(b) Summary of Impacts for Borivali - Virar Quadrupling of Rail Lines 7-26 (BVQR) Project 7.4(c) Summary of Impacts for ROB AT VIKHROLI 7-27 7.4(d) Summary of Impacts for PEDESTRIAN SUBWAY AT CST 7-28 7.4(e) Summary of Impacts for Station Area Improvement Scheme (SATIS) 7-29 at Thane West 7.5 Environmental Management Plan for Jogeshwari-Vikhroli Link Road 7-30 7.6 Environmental Management Plan for Borivali - Virar Quadrupling of 7-37 _Rail Lines (BVQR) Project 7.7 Environmental Management Plan for ROB at Vikhroli 7-44 7.8 Environmental Management Plan for CST PEDESTRIAN SUBWAY 7-51 PROJECT 7.9 Environmental Management Plan for Station Area Improvement 7-56 Scheme (SATIS) at Thane West 7.10 Project Level Environmental Monitoring Plan - JVLR PROJECT 7-61 7.11 Project Level Environmental Monitoring Plan - BVQR PROJECT 7-64 7.12 Project Level Environmental Monitoring Plan - VIKHROLI ROB 7-66 'PROJECT 7.13 Project Level Environmental Monitoring Plan - (CST PEDESTRIAN 7-68 SUBWAY PROJECT) 7.14 Project Level Environmental Monitoring Plan - (SATIS) 7-70 7.15 Monitoring And Reporting Process 7-71 7.16 Roles/Responsibilities And Strengthening Of Institutions 7-73 7.17 Cost Estimated for Imparting Training (2001) 7-21 7.18 Cost estimation for EMP implementation for JVLR and BVQR sub- 7-23 projects 7.19 Overall cost estimates for MUTP sub-projects 7-24 8.1 Project Affected Households 8-5 9.1 Proposed time table for organizing public information and consultation 9-4 workshop for a cross section of the society 9.2 Proposed time table for organizing public information and consultation 9-5 workshop for a project affected people v Mumbai Urban Transport Project Environmental Assessment LIST OF FIGURES Figure Description Page Number Number 1.1 Map of Mumbai Metropolitan Region 1-3 1.2 EnvironmentalAssessment Process 1-9 2.1 Institutional arrangement for Transport Related Environmental 2-11 management 3.1 LanduseMap of MMR 3-3 3.2(A) Air-monitoring locations before year 1999 in MCGM area 3-7 3.2 (B) Air monitoringLocations
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